A solar power demonstration project planned within the King/Sibley Mill complex on the Augusta Canal might instead be built on nearby vacant property owned by the city of Augusta. 

The 4,000-panel “solar farm” was proposed by the city and its Augusta Regional Collaboration Project as a way to generate clean energy, along with revenues to advance the collaborative’s mission to redevelop the mill area into a university campus. 

The Augusta Canal Authority, which owns the 50-acre mill property, wasn’t made aware of the solar plan until after its approval, however. 

“Out of the blue, we got word that five acres behind King Mill was approved for a solar project,” said Dayton Sherrouse,Our high quality HID Kit are perfect for anyone that wants to make their ride look up to date. the canal authority’s executive director. 

Because the project would tie up the land for 20 years and might not be appropriate for an area under evaluation for redevelopment, canal officials suggested the solar farm be erected elsewhere, possibly a city-owned parcel just up Goodrich Street from the mills. 

The renewed statewide interest in solar stems from the Georgia Public Service Commission’s approval of a Georgia Power Co, initiative that would pay 13 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar energy. The opportunity created a flurry of applications, including one at the mills complex. 

Augusta Regional Collaboration Project Director Matt Kwatinetz said that putting the solar farm on nearby property at 1735 Goodrich St. is a workable solution but that the change would require approval from Georgia Power. 

If a location change is not acceptable, a possible remedy would be to leave a transformer or small component of the project at the original approved site near King Mill, he said. 

“We’ve met with the solar contractor the city was working with,” Sherrouse said. “As it stands right now, we’re looking to move it to the west of Sibley Mill on the existing city property.” 

Word of Japan’s rapid adoption of solar energy has the industry buzzing. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported last week that Japan is expected to trail only China in new solar capacity installed this year. Several market analysts, like Lux Research, have reported that the solar market in Japan should remain strong for years to come as the Japanese people express increasingly strong opposition to nuclear facilities like the Fukushima Daiichi plant that failed after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. 

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